St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-01

made concerning it, and because it has been
means of great good TO many men, and led
many to conversion already, and now has II
reading constituency of 500 Il week. You can
do as you p,ease about II. AS far as am
concerned it hasn't paid me anything yet.
and II 1t is going TO pay me anything it will
have 10 do it in the future; and Will say to
you that is the only thing in the world my
wife and four children have to depend on if
should lay down and die in Minneapolis TO-
morrow. And then talk about $500 week.
| never saw anything of that sort preaching:
and the devil never Matched bigger lie
in the brain of anybody, newspaper men or
otherwise, than he did in the fellow
that told that | laid down steady income
when went into preaching, steady income
from the courts, and from newspaper work
OF between $4,000 and $4,000 Il year. was
getting that matchmaking money those
days-just us you see this brother is getting
kown what / say IN front of me, writing
shorthand, and can make II tomorrow; can
go back TO Washington City or Atlanta and
go to work at shorthand and make from $50
10 $500 every day work. The only reason |
didn't get rich was because was half drunk
all the time and spent my money gambling on
horse races and running all sorts OF devil
ment with it. ] would get $4,000 or SIS, 900 u
year with it, and still come out at the end of
the year i'm debt and all the money! have got
since have been preaching, the biggest end
of it all, every dollar OF il, is spent to pay my
deDtS tnaL MADE Wnen was
DRINKING AMI CARoUSING
and running around with these newspaper
fellows, and now they abuse me for it, One
fellow thought he got of II big joke about me
when he told about me going into u bar-room
to pay debt. / owed more for the other
fellows than for myself; biggest end of my
debts was for treating the crowd. would
have been out of debt long ago il | only paid
for what | drank myself, but ! am paying
their bills, and now they are abusing me for
ii. don't think the devil is that mean. |
caught fellow in lie last night Mt the West
house ar the table. Brother Jones and sat
ut one end of the table, and he rushed in
there with copy of the newspaper in his
hand and sat at the table, and said TO a fell
low: Have you heard this fellow, Sam
Jones. | heard him. | attended one of his
meetings in Baltimore" And then he went
on TO tell the biggest lie about Sam Jones in
this country. L just tapped him
on the arm and said: Look here do You
mean 10 tell that for the TRUTH" WELL" he
said, II heard it," Then said: "You have
heard lie and no gentleman will repeat
lie. You said Il lie" And he lodged behind
his newspaper and held it up between HIM
and me, and he was wonderfully taken down;
he hadn't looked around 10 who was
there. People don't go round the country
all the time lying about what we are getting,
and what we are doing, and what we say.
Sam Jones said: "If fellow gets out of a
JOB he goes TO lying about Sam Jones and
sam Small: he ant got anything else in God
Almighty's world to do. Now you can Go rs
you please about the newspaper. | don't
care cents about it; | am going TO do the
best can. l know if ! was 10 die tomorrow
my wife and children would have to go to
work for their bread aud meat. But have
been redeemed from
so MUCH EVIL,
and God has poured blessings out on nv
pathway for twenty months, and il has made
my wife so happy, ana my children so happy
and given me so much joy in my own soul,
that | will serve Him, and serve Him faith
fully to the end, and so ] don't care. | am
too sick 10 preach this afternoon. | can
hardly sit on this stand in comfort at all.
Brother Jones and myself are both under a
course Of medicine. We are trying to get
ready for the services tomorrow. Got to
preach-one of us-to-night. And then TO-
morrow afternoon l shall hold a service, and
as II is The story OF my experience it makes
drafts upon my feelings and upon my ply
steal strengthened spiritual nature. preached
it five times in Boston during our m ceilings
by special request, and glorious results fol-
lowed and many men were redeemed from
their lives of waywardness, debauchery and
drunkenness, and here in Minneapolis to-
morrow afternoon, God being my helper, if I
never preach again want to preach TO- morrow
afternoon--if it is the last public utterance |
make in the world want you to pray for
Brother Jones and for me, and pray that we
may have strength, physical and mental and
spiritual, to get through with the labors of
TO morrow successfully, and may God bless
the word whereunto it is sent. This after
noon we have asked Brother Hall to preach
the sermon. He is a young man from Mon
lana; been out there seven years preaching
the gospel in that wild country He was
there six months before he heard any man